Tailoring the polariton dispersion by optical confinement: Access to a manifold of elastic polariton pair scattering channels

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 2012011-2012014

  Dasbach, G ^a,b   Schwab, M ^a,b   Bayer, M ^b   Krizhanovskii, D N ^b   Forchel, A ^b  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELASTICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; ENERGY; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICS; PARAMETER; PHOTON; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECTROSCOPY; VELOCITY;

EID: 0037113460     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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